Illuminating device.



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IVLLUMINATING DEVICE; APELlcATloN FILED 111112111915.

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MARTIN S. BALDWIN, OF NIZW YORK, N. Y., AND AUGUST SUN'DH, OF HASTINGS- UPON-HUDSON, NEW YORK.

ILLUMINATING DEVICE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 16, 1916.

Application filed January 27, 1915. SeraI No. 4,5911.

States, residing inA New York, `county and State of New Yorlq and Hastings-upon- 4 Hudson, in the county of Westchester, and

State of New York, respectively, have mvented a new and useful Improvement in Illuminating Devices, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to an improvement in illuminating devices, especially adapted to hand bags, and is designed to provide a novel, cheap and simple means of lighting ones path in traveling in the dark.

Vith our arrangement the annoyance of entering a carriage or automobile in dark and wet or muddy places is done away with; also the difficulty in nding ones .way in a theater and such places where the lights may be extinguished.

Referring to the accompanying sheet of drawing which illustrates our invention, Figure 1 is an elevational view partly in section of our device; Fig. 2 is an enlarged sectional view of the lower part ofthe bag, showing the arrangement of the light, battery, etc.; Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation View of part of the' handle of the bag showing the arrangement of the switch for the light; Fig. 1 is a plan view of Fig. 3; Fig. 5 is a view of the bottom of the bag with the bag inverted; Fig. 6 is a wiring diagram of the device.

Referring to the drawings in detail, in Fig. 1, is illustrated a hand bag, B. Located in the bottom of the bag is a metal pocket, 1, adapted to carry a battery, 2, and a small electric light. pocket is a screw threaded downwardly eX- tending projection, 3, which extends through the bottom ofthe bag. To reta-in the pocket in place and to retain the lamp in place in the pocket is a screw threaded ring 4, which when screwed on the extension 3, will hold the pocket 1 firmly in place against the bag.

ed to receive a small electric lamp 7, the bot- Formed on one end of this.

tom of which engages one terminal 8 of the battery. The battery is suitably insulated by insulation, 9, from the pocket 1. We have provided a hinged door, 10, at one end of the battery to allow of removal or replacement of the battery. Leading from the other terminal, 11, of the battery, is a conductor, 12, which is led along the bottom of the bag and up the side until it reaches a point abreast of the eye, 13, of the bag, to which the handle of the bag is secured. The conductor is then led out through the side of the bag, through the eye, 13, up the link, 14, and to, the handle, 15, up the side of the handle, to a spring contact, 16, which is secured to the handle, 15, at about midway of its length. Another conductor is led from the reflector, 5, with which it is in engagement, along the bottom of the bag and up the side in the same way as the conductor, 12, until abreast of the eye, 13. It is then led out through the opposite side of the bag from conductor, 12, up by the link, 11, and by the handle, 15, in the same way as conductor, 12, to a contact, 18, secured tothe handlebf the bag, and adapted to engage the spring Contact, 16, whenthe latter is operated. Surrounding the contacts, 16 and 18,.and the handle 15, at that point is a flexible strlp, 19, preferably of the same material asthe bag. This .strip being flexible permits one to operate the Contact 16. We have shown` the conductors, 12 and 17, sewed to the bag and handle for their entire length, eXceptmg when they pass through the side of the bag, and through the eye and link, by a strip of soft material which is sewed to the bag and handle over the conductors. The circuit of the lamp is established by pressing the contact 16 into engagement with contact 18, when a circuit will be made from terminal 11, conductor 12, cont-acts 16, 18, conductor 17, reflector 5, through the lamp, 7, and terminal 8 to the battery.

It will be seen from the above description that we have provided a novel arrangement and a useful one.

The location of the lamp is a matter of choice, our invention embracing its location anywhere in the bag which will answer the purpose for which the device is designed.

We must not be limited to the precise construction disclosed as one skilled in the art might make various changes in the details and arrangements of parts here shown without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

WV hat we claim is:

1. The combination of a handbag, an illuminating device, consisting of an electric battery, an incandescent lamp, and a reflector, a casing wherein said battery, lamp and reflector are placed, said casing being located inside the bag and at the bottom thereof and secured to the bag by means of a screw-threaded flange, and having an extension for the light to shine through, the light being placed in the opening of said extension to be thrown downward from the bag.

2. The combination of a handbag, an

illuminating device consisting of an electric vbattery, an incandescent lamp, a reflector and lens, within a casing, said casing being secured to the bottom of the bag by means of a screw threaded flange applied to an. extension 011 the casing whereby the material of the bag is clamped between said casing and said screw threaded flange, and thereby held in position, said battery being insulated from the casing, and the incandescent light being screw threaded to the reflector and held in place in the casing by the said flange.

3. The combination of a hand bag, an illuminating device consisting of an electric battery, an incandescent lamp, a reflector and a lens, a casing for said illuminating device with an extension, said casing being secured' tothe bottom of the bag with the extension extending through the bag, the electric lamp being screw threaded to the reflector and faced to throw its light through an opening of the extension of the casing and downwardly through the lens, said lens, reflector and lamp Vbeing held in placewithin the extension of the casing by a screwthreaded flange, a. switch in the bag handle, insulated wire conductors connecting said switch with the said lamp and battery.

4. In a hand bag, the combination of an electric illuminating device applied thereto and arranged to throw the light in a downward direction when the bag is suspended from its handle, a casing for said illuminating device with an extension and a cover, the illuminating device consisting of' a battery insulated from said casing, and an incandescent lamp with one terminal directly connected to one pole of said battery, aV

switch in the handle of the'bag, continuous insulated wire connections between said switch, battery and incandescent lamp', a reflector for the lamp, anda lens infront of the lamp, a flange whereby the material of the bag is squeezed between the flange and the casing, said flange also adapted to secure the lens, lamp and reflector in proper place in the extension of the casing.

In testimony whereof, we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

MARTIN S. BALDWIN. AUGUST SUNDH.

Witnesses:

WALTER C. STRANG, JAMES G. BETHELL. 

